New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-16
ANOTHER ASIATIO DELUGE.
MILLIONS HOMELESS AND STARVING.
YELLOW RIVER VALLEY A RAGING sEA-ELEvEN
PoPULOUs CITIES INUNDATED-INCAL-


YELLOW RIVER VALLEY RAGING sEA-ELEvEN
POrULoUs CITIES INUNDATED-INCAL-
CULABLE LOSS OF LIFE.
BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15-Thc steamshpCity OF Sydney
arrived this afternoon from Hong Kong and Yokohama
Chinese papers give details OF disaster occasioned BY
the Yellow Rvor overho wing its banks the Province
OF Honau, and describe 1t OF the most appalling
occurrences In loss OF life and property recorded In
recent times The river broke banks the evening
OF September 2S southwest OF tho city OF Chingchow
and only completely inundated that city but also ten
other populous cities
Tho whole Is now raging sea ten to thirty feet
deep. where IL once densely populated and rich
plain The former bed Of the Yellow River is now dry
and the present lake the OF the centuries
ago. The loss OF life is ncalcuabc and the statement
Is made by missionaries, that millions OF Chinese are
homeless and starving. Thomas Patton. one OF the
American missionaries. writing from Ionau Province,
under date OF October 2s. says:
"The newly gathered crops. houses and trees are all
swept away, involving fearful loss OF life. The
country covered with winter braid which is
gone, and implies complete destruction 20 next year s
crop. Bread. bread is the cry OF thousands who are
the river bank. Benevolent people &, in boats and
throw bread the here there but Is
nothing compared with the requirements The mass or
people is still being increased by continual arrivals even
moro hungry than the last There they sit, stunned
hungry and detected. without a rag to morse
OF food. Mat hus being erected for them. What II
VIII ne IN TWO cannot conceive misery
increased owing 10 the bitter cold wegther."
Yslsw River has long been known as Cnua's sorrsw,
and the present disaster has served 10 reasscrt t' .hi
to the terrible tt!c As yet details OF the disaster are
very mcagrc 1t has occurred In district where but few
foreigners and the reports furnished by the ocals
ana published ia the Tc Gd,ctc convey inadequate
of the OF loss OF life ani property and
tho sTnenss OF the SURVIVORS, The Governor In Honau
reports The throne that nearly all the PEOPLE have
been drowned III the district reached by the water tue
Survivors berg tAosc VINO escaped 10 he h-h goun or
took refuge In trees where they rem4ei Till they were
rescued"
Ths extent Of gIeuni swept br the svrrwhcl
food. gwen IN EngsI figures ever 300 square msS,
AMI the aud thus submerged formed part OF one OF ths
richest and sost do sey populated plains OF Northern
China.
lhc E~prror OF China has given 200 1000 tacls and
the Chinese have started subscription lists ia shanghai
10 which Foreigners nave hnsld " contribstoG hIohs
have been reAicrsd housee and entirely deprived ot
all chances earning their livelihood. FOR ther hell'
viii either become permanent lakes al uninht tptaD e
swampa Its feared That the dstr,ss wkCh viii bo ielt
during the riug winter will equal IN intensity the
famine Of ten when charitable d"natsns cen
trihu'sd iIom all parts OF the world were utterly IN
adequate
i stated that owing to th- fre hci. the Yellow River
no lOnsc nsvS toward IN bIt seems content IN
converting Eastern lonau and Northern Ngtuwnui hio
lake II ultimately neV into tho t.rsuch tho
kianSon, or II NAV ewes possibly JOIN tae ldugtes-